360-degree photos of empty Melbourne in lockdown
Most Melburnians haven’t set foot in their city centre for months. Take a step into the eerily quiet CBD as almost 5 million people in the metro area endure the world’s toughest COVID-19 lockdown.
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Melbourne, a city of 5 million people, is a ghost town.
Most Melburnians haven’t set foot in the CBD since March when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and government restrictions kicked in.
Herald Sun photographer Alex Coppel takes readers into the eerily quiet CBD to capture what the once bustling city centre has become.
“I’ve never seen Melbourne so quiet before,” Coppel says.
“The city has always been a hive of activity from theatre night openings to parades and the ever-present hum of traffic.
“I realised there are a lot of people not able to come into town to witness this, as we are enduring the stay-at-home-rule, and wanted share this with those unable to get into our beautiful city.
“I tried to convey each of the scenes photographed in their ‘ghost-town’ likeliness, as each of those locations I would normally associate as being non-stop with human activity.”
Melbourne is enduring the toughest lockdown restrictions of any major city in the world.
It includes a strict curfew from 8pm to 5am, a near-total retail and office shutdown, compulsory mask-wearing in public and 5km limit on travel from home.
On Wednesday Coppel used an Insta360 ONE-X camera to capture what he could see at city landmarks in one scene.
Navigate around the scene and zoom in using your mouse - or tap and zoom on a phone - to experience the quiet ghostliness of Melbourne.
FEDERATION SQUARE
YARRA RIVER, AT FLINDERS ST STATION
EVAN WALKER BRIDGE, SOUTHBANK
CENTRE PLACE
BLOCK ARCADE
UNION LANE
B OURKE STREET MALL
MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
FLINDERS STREET STATION
PRINCES BRIDGE
SOUTHBANK
SOUTHBANK BOATSHEDS
HARDWARE LANE
ROYAL ARCADE
HOSIER LANE
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